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David Jones Na Criação De David Bowie: a Construção Do Artista Pop Através De Seus Personagens1 Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação 40º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação – Curitiba - PR – 04 a 09/09/2017 David Jones na criação de David Bowie: a construção do artista pop através de seus personagens1 Mariana Bento BENETI2 Márcia Eliane ROSA3 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campinas, SP Resumo A pesquisa busca compreender a construção do artista David Bowie através de seus principais personagens, desde o começo até o fim de sua carreira: Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust e Buttoneyed. Bowie, como era conhecido de forma artística, faleceu de câncer no início de 2016, causando uma comoção e uma reação de várias regiões do mundo. O artista ficou famoso por se transcrever a sociedade através de personagens, ou personas, apresentados por ele nos palcos e músicas. Sua representação e o uso dos aspectos da Sociedade do Espetáculo estabelecem a trajetória de sucesso no universo artístico. Palavras-chave: David Bowie; Sociedade do Espetáculo; Major Tom; Ziggy Stardust; Buttoneyed. Introdução Neste artigo pretende-se fazer alguns apontamentos sobre as principais personas de David Bowie que marcaram a trajetória do início de sua carreira até a sua morte, afim de compreender a conexão entre o próprio artista, seus personagens e a sociedade espetacular. O tema é observado a partir da análise de cada indivíduo que continha dentro de Bowie, cada persona interpretada para criar quem ele mesmo era e o que se passava na época. Ao compreender a formação dessas principais personagens, compreende-se, também, a construção do próprio imaginário de David Bowie e sua relação com a sociedade do espetáculo. O termo em que foi designado ao Bowie, Camaleão do Rock, fazia referência ao que ele era desde o início: uma persona de formas distintas e que tinha a capacidade de se modificar conforme o que era necessário ser apresentado naquele momento. Major 1 Trabalho apresentado no GP Comunicação, Imagem e Imaginários do XVII Encontro dos Grupos de Pesquisa em Comunicação, evento componente do 40º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação. 2 Mestranda do Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguagens, Mídia e Artes (Limiar), da PUC-Campinas. Formada em jornalismo pela mesma instituição, email: [email protected]. 3 Pesquisadora e professora, integra o corpo docente permanente do curso de Mestrado em Linguagens, Mídia e Arte da PUC-Campinas. E-mail: [email protected] 1 Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação 40º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação – Curitiba - PR – 04 a 09/09/2017 Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Tin Machine e Buttoneyed são exemplos de personagens interpretados por David, que foi batizado com o nome de David Robert Jones quando nasceu, dia oito de janeiro de 1947, e até construir o conhecido Bowie, passou por David Jay e Davy Jones. Com produções que datam desde o começo da década de 60 e se finalizam com o lançamento de um CD, de clipes e de uma peça de teatro até 2016, Bowie faleceu em 10 de janeiro de 2016, de câncer, depois de retornar com novas produções e mais uma persona. Bowie utilizou-se de todos os recursos em sua volta, criou produtos e foi um produto, realizava shows com interpretação e arte além de música e se desenhou através dos significados da Sociedade do Espetáculo. A construção de si mesmo se deu durante os anos de sua carreira e durante as histórias de suas personagens. David Robert Jones É importante discutir primeiro quem foi David antes de ser a persona Bowie. Para o artista construir ele mesmo, fatos de sua família e infância foram importantes para o desenvolvimento de sua pessoa como artista. Antes mesmo de ser David Bowie, David Robert Jones (oito de janeiro de 1947) tinha seus próprios desafios, pois como avaliaram seus biógrafos, cresceu em uma família desestruturada. A mãe tinha filhos fora de casamentos e o pai havia gastado todo o dinheiro com uma dançarina quando David nasceu, sua criação musical foi dada pelo irmão mais velho, Terry. A mãe [de David], Peggy, propensa a reações insólitas, reconhecia em Terry os sinais da “maldição da família”, a esquizofrenia, que afligira sua própria mãe e vários irmãos. Quando Terry começou a demonstrar dificuldade em perceber a realidade que o cercava, Bowie não apenas padeceu do medo e do sofrimento de ver o querido irmão mergulhar num mundo interior, terrível, assustador, como também começou a se dar conta de que o legado de instabilidade psicológica dos Burns talvez se estendesse à sua própria geração. (DOGGETT, 2014, p. 38) A esquizofrenia foi um assunto que David tentou ignorar e lidar de sua própria maneira, e enquanto isso não acontecia com seu irmão, era nele que via a oportunidade de aprender novos estilos musicais. Terry Burns apresentou a David estilos diferentes de jazz e blues, mas não ouvia rock. Entrou em sua primeira banda com 14 anos, os Kon- Rads, atuava como saxofonista e vocalista bissexto – lá, era conhecido como David Jay. Passava mais o tempo mudando os figurinos e criando atuações no palco do que gravando 2 Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação 40º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação – Curitiba - PR – 04 a 09/09/2017 singles ou tocando instrumentos, fato amplamente abordado no documentário Black Tie Whyte Noise (1993), ao mostrar uma entrevista de Bowie contando o quão importante era, para ele, se modificar e interpretar no palco, uma característica que marcaria sua futura carreira. No decorrer dos anos, David saiu da Escola Técnica Secundária de Bromley (em 1963) aprovado somente nas disciplinas de artes, trabalhou como estagiário em uma agência de publicidade e propaganda na Bond Street e até assinou um contrato com o selo dos Kinks, na gravadora Pye, em 1965, como Davy Jones. Foi então que descobriu que existia um nome famoso com o que estava usando, portanto mudou-se pela terceira vez, para o conhecido David Bowie. O sobrenome foi inspirado em um lendário personagem do Velho Oeste, Jim Bowie, criador do “punhal Bowie”. As diversas faces de David Bowie Bowie, como ficou conhecido até o fim de sua carreira, foi a primeira persona de David Jones, de muitas das que ainda estavam por aparecer. Para ele, de acordo com seu biografo Peter Doggett (2014), usar o sobrenome “Jones” era muito comum, e mudar de nome e aparência eram o mesmo que mudar sua identidade. No início de 1969, seu produtor, Kenneth Pitt, estava organizando e preparando um show de televisão chamado The Many Faces of David Bowie (tradução livre: As diversas faces de David Bowie), que fracassou antes mesmo de ir ao ar. Bowie conseguiu atingir seu primeiro grande sucesso ainda nesse ano, quando lançou a música Space Oddity, a primeira que ficou marcada em sua carreira. Apesar de Bowie ter lançado alguns discos com bandas diferentes antes de 1969, é senso comum entre os pesquisadores de rock que sua produção só adquire realmente alguma relevância a partir do lançamento de Space Oddity, em 1969. (SAINT CLAIR, 2004, p. 213) Space Oddity4 foi o primeiro single de Bowie que atingiu fama internacional e a primeira que ele cantou através de um personagem enquanto representava o que a sociedade vivia na época. A música conta a história de Major Tom, a persona de Bowie, um astronauta que saiu da Terra com segurança, entretanto algo ocorreu de errado durante 4 Space Oddity, música gravada em 1969 para o LP Space Oddity. Foi regravada em 1979 para comemoração de uma década de trabalho, em um LP single, lado-B. 3 Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação 40º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação – Curitiba - PR – 04 a 09/09/2017 a viagem e ele decidiu se desconectar do Ground Control (Controle de Terra) para morrer. No começo da década de 70, com o homem chegando à Lua pela primeira vez, o início do movimento hippie e o otimismo transmitido por muitos artistas, como os Beatles, Bowie tentava demonstrar seus pensamentos pessimistas. Major Tom tinha a oportunidade de contemplar a Terra e refletir acerca da posição perigosa e insignificante do nosso planeta no universo. [...] Bowie ressaltava [na música] a capacidade que tinham a mídia e a indústria publicitária para se lançarem ao espaço e exigirem seu quinhão junto a um homem exilado do restante da humanidade. (DOGGETT, 2014, p. 74) Justamente pelo fato de que astronautas reais arriscavam suas vidas naquele momento, Space Oddity foi proibida de ser transmitida em horário nobre por estações de rádio nos Estados Unidos. Mesmo assim, a BBC passou o single ao vivo com a transmissão da chegada do homem à Lua enquanto Bowie cria o Major Tom. Três critérios serão utilizados para analisar a persona de Major Tom: sua vida (forma como apresenta a questão da vivência), sua morte (a questão iconográfica do fim) e seu feeling midiático (fator relacionado ao universo da Sociedade do espetáculo). Tais aspectos também serão utilizados para o observar os personagens Ziggy Stardust e Buttoneyed, criados e recriados por Bowie. São características que se apresentam de forma padronizada e constante em suas personas. Vida: Major Tom viveu exclusivamente como um astronauta, Bowie não deixa o fã entrar em contato com outros aspectos do dia a dia normal do que seria essa personagem. Muito pelo contrário, Major Tom na música Space Oddity é visto somente como um herói, aquele que vai para os céus e consegue observar o mundo à distância e como ele é. Morte: ao criar o herói, David Bowie também o mata no mesmo single. Com alguma falha no sistema de sua nave, Major Tom se desconecta do Controle de Terra e passa a flutuar para sempre no espaço, uma metáfora para o que seria a morte de um herói.
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